Richard Branson

Richard Branson's Plans In America And Space In The Age Of Expensive Oil

Fortune.com | Richard Siklos | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business


LOS ANGELES (Fortune) -- So here we were at 6:20 Monday morning at Los Angeles International Airport. Despite the hour, a disc jockey played pulsing c...

Virgin Galactic Mothership Unveiled by Branson (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 07.28.2008 | Business


Scroll down for photos and video. From the AP: MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. ...

Branson To Partially Unveil Commercial Spaceship On Monday

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home


LOS ANGELES — Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich to...

The Notable And Notorious -- On Bicycles!

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.07.2008 | Green


Olivia Zaleski

Inspired by such high-profile cyclists as Obama, Fey and Einstein, I've set to work amassing a comprehensive archive of 100 people we know, love--perhaps even despise--atop the bike.

Let's Follow Richard Branson's Green Example

Stefan Roberts | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green


Stefan Roberts

What Branson intends is not just a huge luxury resort. It is a huge GREEN luxury resort. The whole island will be powered by wind and hydro power, and aims to be completely and utterly carbon-neutral.

Richard Branson Plans Caribbean Eco-Resort

Posted 07.03.2008 | Green


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Virgin's Green Investment Fund Gets First $199 Million

Financial Times | Chris Hughes | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green


Wolverhampton City Council and Calpers, the influential Californian pension fund, have emerged as some of the maiden investors in Virgin Group's first...

Richard Branson: Airlines Should Pay Emissions Tax

AP | ELIANE ENGELER | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business


GENEVA — Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson told a forum on climate change Tuesday that aviation is a dirty business and that airlines should...

50-Year-Old Virgin Wants to Screw the Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 04.15.2008 | Media


Timothy Karr

Billionaire Richard Branson needs to call one of his boys out to the woodshed: his top man at Virgin Media stated his plans to undermine the basic freedoms upon which the Internet was built.

Branson, Google Guys Pull A Fast One

Time.com | M.J. STEPHEY | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business


From Time.com: Now that Google has effectively conquered Earth, the all-powerful Web giant is setting its sites on a new frontier: Mars. Calling it ...

Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

New Rocket Aims for Space Tourism Market

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business


BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age plan to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship ...

Richard Branson's Son Hired As "Green Ambassador"

Guardian | John Plunkett | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business


Bauer Radio's dance music station Kiss has hired Sir Richard Branson's son Sam to be its "green ambassador", with him set to take part in a series of ...

Branson Launches Online Charter Plane Service

Reuters | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business


Richard Branson's first charter plane experience gave him the idea to start commercial airline company Virgin Atlantic Airways (VA.UL). Some 25 years...

Can Richard Branson Save Aviation?

Amy Ziff | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living


Amy Ziff

Last week when I heard about Branson's latest feat -flying a 747 airplane from London to Amsterdam on 20 percent bio-diesel fuel - I had to say "Hallelujah!"

Virgin Air Flying on Fumes?

Andrew Winston | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business


Andrew Winston

While money is being poured into working on all kinds of biofuels, we need parallel experimentation on what to do with that fuel.

Virgin Flies Biofueled Jet

AP | THOMAS WAGNER | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business


LONDON — Virgin Atlantic carried out the world's first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it ca...

The 60-plus Population: Living History

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 02.04.2008 | Living


Carolyn Anderson

The population between the ages of 60 and 100 is the most untapped resource in society.

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Unveils First Spaceship

Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home


The spaceflight division of Richard Branson's company, Virgin Galactic, unveiled it's proto-type for a spaceship that will carry tourists to the stars...

Sir Richard Branson Tells Virgin Atlantic Strikers To Take A Hike

Times | Marcus Leroux | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business


Sir Richard Branson has provoked outrage by telling Virgin Atlantic staff who are threatening to go on strike that they should "consider working elsew...

Jimmy Fallon Marries Producer Girlfriend

AP | Posted 12.29.2007 | Entertainment


Longtime "Saturday Night Live" performer Jimmy Fallon and movie producer Nancy Juvonen were married in the Caribbean, a publicist announced Saturday. ...

Branson's Virgin Group Picked To Save Northern Rock

Reuters | Steve Slater | Posted 11.26.2007 | Business


A consortium led by Richard Branson's Virgin Group has been picked as the preferred bidder to rescue Northern Rock and plans to repay 11 billion pound...

Richard Branson Leaps Off Palms Hotel, Rips Pants

Daily Mail | Posted 10.11.2007 | Business


It was not the most auspicious start for a new business venture - crashing into the side of a building in mid-air before the gaze of hundreds of journ...

Branson Ditches Virgin Megastores

The Guardian (U.K.) | Owen Gibson | Posted 09.17.2007 | Home


Sir Richard Branson yesterday severed his last remaining link with the high street, offloading his Virgin Megastore chain at a time when record shops ...

Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic Unveils Plans For Tourist Spaceport In New Mexico

Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 09.06.2007 | Home


As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...


 

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